MHR 405 Final: MHR STUDY NOTES.docx
12 Nov 2012
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Organizational behaviour is the study of what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Organizations are groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. (consist of people who share common objectives) Organizational effectiveness is a broad concept as it has several perspectives. It is mainly an organizations fit with the external environment, internal subsystems configuration for high performance, organizational learning, and its ability to satisfy the needs of key stakeholders. Open systems - is a perspective which stats that organizations depend on the external environment for resources, affect that environment through their output, and consist of internal subsystems that transform input into output. (view pg. Closed: closed systems operate without dependence on or interaction with the external environment. Organizational efficiency - the amount of outputs relative to inputs in an organizations transformation process. Organizational learning - a perspective which states that organizational effectiveness depends on the organizations capacity to acquire, share, use, and store valuable knowledge.
